fast food

[harvestl]

So I've heard that Taco Bell's beans are vegan, and that the original Pizza Hut crust and sauce are vegan, but do you trust that at all?  Are there any places that you trust to get french fries at?  Sometimes I just have to have something fried, but I just don't trust these places.  Help please??

Comments

[catnip13]

Taco Bell has a number of vegan options. The beans are vegan, and if you order things 'fresco style,' they omit the cheese and sour cream and add a salsa. The guacamole used to contain gelatin and sour cream, but is now vegan. The tortillas are vegan, according to Vegetarian Journal a few months back. Chipotle's tortillas, black beans, rice, guacamole and salsas are vegan. Pizza Hut's hand tossed and pan crust have dairy, I believe the thin crust is vegan. The sauce might be. Subway's Veg Delite sandwich on Italian Bread, sans mayo and cheese is vegan. Burger King fries are ostensibly vegan and are SUPPOSED to be cooked in seperate oil from the meat items. Papa John's, Mountain Mike's and Little Caesar's have pizzas that are vegetarian if ordered without cheese

[catnip13]

Not according to the article on vegan quick service food I read in Vegetarian Journal a couple of months ago. And they are, as I said, supposed to be cooked in seperate oil. But that may or may not actually play out in a busy restaurant.

[tartinglitter]

I don't think anything else at Taco Bell is fried, only the fiesta potatoes and the cinnamon thingies, both of which contains no animal products.

[catnip13]

Was referring to the BK fries.

[tartinglitter]

Aha! Sorry for the confusion!

[mushyasparagus]

Burger Kind's fries are okay, it's McDonald's fries that have chicken fat in them.

[misledyouth00]

it used to be beef fat but they got in trouble for it years ago and have long since stopped; if you want to support mcdonald's.

[mushyasparagus]

Yes, beef fat. Sorry for the misinformation.

They still contain beef flavor.

"French Fries:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*), citric acid (preservative), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), salt. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent). *
CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK (Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients)."

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/nutrition_ingredients.html

[trar]

I got some weird letter in the mail last year from some vegetarian society thingy and it mentioned something about the fact BK had removed the amino acids from their fries. I had no idea what they were talking about until now.

the last time I looked at BK nutritional values, all I could eat were the hashbrowns and french toast sticks, and those have more chemicals in them than my shampoo!

[bizwac]

It may vary from region to region, but I had a look at the ingredients for Burger King's fries, and they had beef extract. (and no, I'm not thinking of McDonalds as I didn't have one near me).

[emraldfire]

mabye you are thinking of McD's and the beef fat?

[catnip13]

Papa John's, Mountain Mike's and Little Caesar's have pizzas that are vegan if ordered without cheese.

[johnsu01]

Papa John's also has that ridiculous garlic "butter" dipping sauce that, last I looked, is vegan.

[foreignseas]

nope, it has lactic acid. i thought it was vegan, too (since from first glance, it really does look vegan, no "whey" or "milk" and it even labels the mono and diglycerides as vegetable based), and i was really excited, but then i noticed it had lactic acid (there's one ingredient that sounds like it would be nonvegan, but it is, and i thought that this was it), but unfortunately, lactic acid is NOT vegan; therefore, the sauce isn't. :(